Chapter One
Alice-Miranda focused on the long, straight stretch of road. In the distance she could see something flying towards them. She wondered for a moment if it was a light aircraft before realising it was an eagle. Another giant bird swooped in from the left across their path, almost touching the bonnet of the four-wheel drive.
‘Wow!’ Millie exclaimed, having just seen the creatures from the back seat. ‘Was that a pterodactyl?’ 7
Alice-Miranda grinned. ‘I was thinking the same thing.’
Hugh Kennington-Jones chuckled. ‘They say everything is bigger in the outback.’
Millie grabbed her camera from the seat beside her. She was keen to enter the art and photography competition Miss Grimm had announced just before the holidays. There were great prizes as well as the opportunity to be exhibited at the opening of the new Fayle Art Space. Professor Winterbottom, the Fayle School Headmaster, had initiated the idea with Miss Grimm, amid a flurry of excitement and heightened activity in both schools’ art rooms. By the time Millie went to take the photograph, though, the birds were too far away.
Behind them, Hugh could see the second Landcruiser in the distance……
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